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#editreport

How does it look when I'm going through the submission reports the editors send me? What do we see when we're reading through the slush pile? Here's some of what I see from our 15 freelance editors reading slush!

  1. angelajames
    Okay! Let's do some #editreport. I'll be tweeting a lot for the next bit, so you might want to mute the #editreport hashtag.
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  2. angelajames
    Here's how #editreport works: There are 15 freelance editors who read slush. They send reports to me, I sift thru them & pull quotes for you
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  3. angelajames
    #editreport of course, I'm also sifting through them and moving submissions around appropriately at the same time :P
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  4. angelajames
    #editreport I'll start with the rejection reports, and at the end, will pull quotes from recent acquisition reports
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    Frm 2 diff reports: "Way too much info drop at the beginning" "excessive info drop in the narrative and dialogue" #editreport
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  6. angelajames
    Frm 2 diff books: "The writing feels choppy and unsophisticated"; "it felt overwritten and excessively dramatic in its prose" #editreport
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  7. angelajames
    "little to no tension and I wasn't caught up in the story...the pacing is slow and drags" #editreport
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    "had one of the most disorienting first chapters I've ever read in a manuscript. I honestly have no idea what happened" #editreport
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  9. angelajames
    Frm 2 diff reports: "dramatic and over-the-top" "prologue is so ripe with purple prose" (she included a sample...I agree!) #editreport
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  11. angelajames
    "...standard popular trope, didn't sparkle enough in its delivery to make me want to keep reading." #editreport
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  12. meganrecords
    I shake my head "yes" at pretty much everything @angelajames says on #editreport. Highly recommend reading her tweets. #sotrue
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  13. angelajames
    "This...romance is okay, but it would need a lot of work and I wasn't engaged enough in the opening pages to want to tackle it." #editreport
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  15. greyhausagency
    @angelajames What readers should note is that comments we are seeing are common to agents and editors. We see the same thing daily!
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  16. gwalli
    Per @angelajames #editreport - Rule 1: Don't bore the reviewer. Rule 2: Don't bore the reviewer. Rule 3: Don't bore the reviewer.
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  17. angelajames
    "This...romance is well-written, but the concept itself was just a little too unbelievable for me to suspend disbelief" #editreport
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  19. angelajames
    From diff reports: "She was whiny....not well characterized" "heroine isn't characterized except having X color hair" #editreport
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  20. jenroland
    Read @angelajames's #editreport tweets. Great play-by-play of the work she is reviewing. Use her tweets to make your #writing better.
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  21. angelajames
    "there's some funny stuff in here, but the setup isn't quite working for me, and the characters sound really young" #editreport
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  22. angelajames
    "This...romance plunges you right in the middle of a scene but doesn't really explain it" #editreport (the opposite of info dump!)
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  23. angelajames
    "...starts w/ 6 pges of encyclopedic-type entry...cld be a good concept but beginning dragged...had a hard time staying engaged" #editreport
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